Child Welfare Case Worker for the Foster Care Team in Nybro Municipality

Nybro Municipality is an expanding municipality in the Småland glass region with approximately 20,000 inhabitants. Here you will find large and small companies, primarily within the glass, wood, and paper industries – several of which are world leaders in their respective fields.

The municipality has a strategic location between the three regional centers: Kalmar, Karlskrona, and Växjö. Communications are good, with railway connections and an airport within three miles.

In Nybro Municipality, there are opportunities to choose attractive housing with beautiful environments in the city or in the countryside. Opportunities for recreation and outdoor life are excellent, as nature is never far away.

Nybro Municipality's vision is: "With security, curiosity, and innovation, we build a new bridge to a larger Nybro of the future."

On nybro.se (https://nybro.se/jobb-foretagande/nybro-kommun-som-arbetsgivare/), you can read about what it is like to work in Nybro Municipality and learn about the benefits we offer our employees.

About the Individual and Family Administration

The Individual and Family Administration is responsible for measures according to the Social Services Act (SoL) and the Act for Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS), covering individual and family care and care for persons with disabilities. Citizens of the municipality who are in need of social services can receive advice, support, and assistance. In most cases, our assistance and measures are provided following an individual assessment as part of our authority exercise. We aim for the measures we provide to lead to independence.

The operations focus on interventions for children, young people, and their parents, substance abuse issues, domestic violence, persons with disabilities who need support in their daily lives, persons in need of financial support, labor market measures, rehabilitation, and integration.

About the Child and Family Operations

The guiding star within the Child and Family operations area in Nybro Municipality is to offer the best possible support to the children, young people, and families we meet. We strive for a goal- and result-oriented operation, and for us, good treatment and compliance with current legal requirements are of highest priority.

One of the overarching goals within the operations is that children and young people, as far as possible, should be given the opportunity to live and grow up together with their families, or alternatively, be reunited with their origins in other ways. The direction of the operations is based on a systemic theoretical foundation with the best interests of the child in focus, where we strive to find alternative solutions in close collaboration with families and their networks.

However, the operations have an explicit responsibility for support and protection for children and young people who, for a shorter or longer period, need protection and may need to be placed outside the home.

About the Foster Care Team

The Foster Care Team is responsible for the care of placed children and support for their birth families and foster families, as well as the recruitment and training of foster families. The team consists of social secretaries/child welfare case workers, family therapists, and foster family recruiters. The team has an organization, routine, and method built to create the best conditions for achieving the goals of care by working with the tripartite parenthood concept. We work in case teams consisting of at least the child's social secretary and family therapist.

1 Position(s)

Job Responsibilities

The main responsibilities as a child welfare case worker are to plan, implement, and follow up on the care of placed children according to the Social Services Act and the Young Persons Care Act (LVU). You will be one of four case workers in the Foster Care Team. We use BBIC (Barns Behov i Centrum / Children's Needs in Focus). We will implement Lifecare as our operation system during the autumn. We have access to external supervision.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a social worker or otherwise meet the National Board of Health and Welfare's competence requirements. You have several years of experience in the exercise of social services authority in the area of children and young people. Consequently, you have good and in-depth knowledge of BBIC and legislation, preferably the Social Services Act (SoL), the Young Persons Care Act (LVU), the Ordinance on Social Services (OSL), and the Parental Code (FB).

Experience in investigations regarding children and young people, particularly LVU, is meritorious. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. The position includes register checks, and applicants must provide a certificate of good conduct from the police before employment. Ongoing selection takes place during the recruitment process.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, Start date: By agreement.

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